A job ad for a real engineer !

This is how a JD should look like, simply fantastic !

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/job_opening_for_a_senior_resea.html

love this part :

In response to the question how flexible is the PhD requirement?: It is up to you to convince me it is not relevant in your case. That will be hard, but not impossible.

Hadoop and real time analysis

A good friend and ex colleague at IBM has written this wonderful stuff on Hadoop.

http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/raptor-realtime-analytics-on-hadoop-soundararajan-velu-sungard

Why I love cloud and more so AWS

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-archives-amazon-web-services-timesmachine/